Summer snows blanket New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Coldest temperatures in Perth breaking records back to 1879 and new report out shows that 58 glaciers in New Zealand are advancing. The repeated summer snow events are showing a clear trend that growing seasons are becoming shorter.

Souljahboy Meanwhile, Cape Town is burning hot, yet again. If it's not gale force winds, there's absolutely no wind ; today is 33, not fun. I suppose it is the end of Summer. I miss those 5 degree days last year.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.